Quality Assurance Engineer I

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Salary: Not specified

At Acorns, our mission is to look after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming, beginning with the empowering, proud step of micro-investing. Our values guide us, and our mission drives us. Come join us and help deliver financial wellness for the whole family, putting the tools of wealth-making into everyone’s hands.

Acorns is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer I who has a passion for helping create reliable, bug-free user experiences and a background in writing functional, integration, system, and end-to-end automated tests. As a QA Engineer, your typical week would involve collaborating with the product and other various engineering teams to plan the build-out test suites for new features. You will participate in product feature and architecture design reviews to identify concerns and risks early in the product life cycle. You will build and maintain tools and frameworks to support ongoing automated testing efforts on all supported mobile platforms and browser configurations. You will be developing and maintaining test plans, test cases, and automated tests to ensure sufficient test coverage of our mobile, web, and backend applications.

We're looking for an experienced QA Engineer who loves learning new technologies on the job, thinks creatively to solve complex problems, and enjoys working collaboratively. Acorns is a remote-first organization, offering the flexibility to work remotely while providing optional access to office space in Irvine, CA.

Responsibilities

• Learn the QA process and tools that the QA team uses
• Design, build, and maintain automated test suites across mobile, web, and backend applications to ensure high-quality, bug-free user experiences.
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to plan test coverage for new features and identify potential risks early through design and architecture reviews.
• Develop tools and testing frameworks that support scalable, reliable automated testing across supported devices, platforms, and browsers.
• Assist devs and QA with testing new features
• Take ownership of testing new features
• Develop and maintain automated tests for new and existing features
• Recommend and implement improvements to QA process and tools

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience as a QA/QE Engineer, SDET or similar role preferred
• Working knowledge of test methodologies, processes, and tools
• Agile Testing Experience in an agile development environment (e.g. SCRUM/XP/Kanban)
• Experience programming in: Ruby, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript C#
• Experience with Espresso, XCUI, Selenium/Appium, Cypress or similar mobile automation frameworks
• Experience testing RESTful APIs
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Reports
• Investment portfolio experience
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, multi-tasking, troubleshooting, and decision-making skills
• Must be self-directed, detail-oriented, and have excellent written & verbal communication skills
• Experience with Unix (Linux preferred)
• Comfortable communicating cross-functionally and across management levels in formal and informal settings
• Shows creativity and initiative

Company Information

At Acorns, our mission is to look after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming, beginning with the empowering, proud step of micro-investing. Our values:

• Lead With Heart: With compassion, integrity, and tenacity, inspire yourself and others to move past all previous thresholds of possibility.
• Make Bold Decisions: We are creating a new world. Be optimistic, adventurous, and courageous. Leap fearlessly into the future.
• Always Build Trust: Say what you mean, mean what you say, and do what you say you’re going to do. We are all owners. We are one team.
• Never Stop Growing: Change IS the constant. Stay hungry and curious. Be relentless in the pursuit of progress.
• Find a way: Never settle, no excuses, nothing is impossible. Just make it happen.